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• ‘After-echo’: Judith Nangala Crispin creates elegies to newly deceased creatures

  05-11-2022 20:00
  The exhibition Dangerous Stars – at the Head On Photo festival in Sydney – stretches the limits of image-making and traces the journey of animals’ spirits after deathGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFor a photographer whose primary subject is death, Judith Nangala Crispin is surprisingly chipper. Her works are “portraits of what remains after an animal has died”, she tells Guardian Australia. They are elegies to newly deceased creatures: lizards squashed u
  
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• Luxury watches crafted from paper – in pictures

  05-11-2022 18:00
  Canadian artist Gabriel Lau fell in love with luxury watches while studying product design at university. Like most of us, he can’t afford them, so he drew his dream Rolex – purposefully skew-whiff, but completely accurate in dimension and design – and photographed it stuck on his wrist for Instagram. That was the start of his paper watch collection. He has now made Patek Phillipes, Cartier timepieces and Omega Seamasters out of cardboard. “I’m still most passionate
  
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• Climate activists glue themselves to frames of two Goya paintings in Madrid

  05-11-2022 17:32
  The two protesters did not damage the works but ‘caused their frames slight blemishes’ the Prado museum saysTwo climate activists have glued their hands to the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya at a museum in Madrid.The protest at the Prado museum, in which both protesters each glued a hand to the frames, did not damage either painting but caused their frames slight blemishes, the museum said. Continue reading...
  
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• Libby Larsen talks about reframing the classical music canon

  05-11-2022 16:14 via artsjournal.com
  Libby Larsen, Composer, shares the history of the classical music canon and how we can reframe it.
  
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• On my radar: Lykke Li’s cultural highlights

  05-11-2022 16:00
  The Swedish singer and songwriter on stalking Kendrick Lamar, brutalist food in Stockholm, and why she gravitates towards people and nudityBorn in Sweden in 1986, Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson is better known as singer and songwriter Lykke Li. She released her first album, Youth Novels, in 2008, and is celebrated for her gothic take on electro-pop and heartbreak, notably 2014’s I Never Learn and 2018’s So Sad So Sexy. Her music has soundtracked films including Twilight and The Fault in
  
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• Brian Eno: ‘Sex, drugs, art… they’re all ways of surrendering’

  05-11-2022 15:00
  The musician and artist, 74, on doing something about the climate crisis and a great joke he heard the other dayThe first things that ever excited me were music and light. I was very young. I remember once being at my uncle’s when he projected a Disney film on to the kitchen wall. It was intensely bright and it stayed in my mind for years as a sort of magical moment. It was the same with music. When I first heard Get a Job by the Silhouettes, from 1957, it was the weirdest feeling. It made
  
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• ‘The kitten yawning was good luck’: John Angerson’s best phone picture

  05-11-2022 11:00
  The UK-based photographer had to act quickly to capture his mini-moggy’s perfect pose – but is it enough to make Pearly Whiskers famous?John Angerson was working late one night when the family kitten hopped on to his desk. “She was only about three or four months old; I think we got her a little bit early,” he says. “This was the first time she’d made her way into my office. As she sat in my in-tray, I reached for my phone to take a quick photo – the yaw
  
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• Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’

  05-11-2022 08:00
  Proceeds from sale of 150 works owned by the late billionaire Paul Allen will go to charityThe vast private art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is expected to fetch a record-breaking $1bn (£890m) when it is auctioned next week.The collection of more than 150 masterpieces includes Georges Seurat’s Les Poseuses, Ensemble (petite version) and Paul Cézanne’s landscape La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, which are both expected to sell for more than $100m, and
  
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• John Singer Sargent sketch to return to National Trust house where it was created

  05-11-2022 08:00
  Oil sketch of Elsie Palmer to go on display at Ightham Mote in Kent after being acquired by trustAn oil sketch by John Singer Sargent of one of his most famous models will be returned to the English country house where it was painted after being acquired by the National Trust.Sargent’s sketch of Elsie Palmer, which was done in preparation for his masterpiece A Lady in White, will go on display at Ightham Mote in Kent, where the Palmer family lived and hosted artistic and literary gathering
  
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• From Neptune Frost to The Crown: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  05-11-2022 07:00
  Afro cyberpunk musical or 1992’s annus horribilis at the palace? Our critics have you covered for the next seven daysNeptune Frost
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  Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s electrifying Afrofuturist musical fantasia (above) follows the story of an intersex hacker’s journey to the realm of Digitaria. Oddly enough, it’s also appropriate to call it a work of social realism – issues tackled include forced labour in pit mines – but it’s fair to say this ain&
  
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• Jacob’s Pillow — Associate Director of Human Resources

  05-11-2022 05:03 via artsjournal.com
  The Associate Director of Human Resources works closely with the management team and staff on recruitment, training, and retention grounded in the organization’s values as well as its longstanding commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA). Responsible for turning Jacob’s Pillow’s people-first culture into visible and impactful policies, this role manages all actions relating to every phase of human resources activity including on-boarding and orientation, tr
  
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• Managing Director – Laguna Playhouse

  05-11-2022 05:00 via artsjournal.com
  Laguna Playhouse invites smart, ambitious, strategic thinkers to apply to serve as its new Managing Director. The Managing Director will be a thought partner and equal co-leader with Laguna Playhouse’s Artistic Director (who will be newly identified in the coming months), concentrating primarily on institutional growth that matches a vibrant evolving artistic vision.
  Laguna Playhouse’s Managing Director will see opportunity in challenge and will seek to position the company front and
  
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